Gender And The Economic Crisis In Europe

Author : Johanna Kantola,Emanuela Lombardo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319507781

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Gender and the Economic Crisis in Europe by Johanna Kantola,Emanuela Lombardo Pdf

This book is a unique exploration into the gendered politics of the economic crisis in Europe. It focuses, firstly, on the changes in the political and economic decision-making institutions and processes of the EU and their consequences for gender equality policy. Secondly, the book analyses the gendered impacts of austerity politics on member states’ gender equality policies, institutions, regimes, and debates. Finally, it addresses feminist and intersectional struggles and resistances against neoliberal, conservative and racist politics across Europe. The authors consider the gendered politics of the economic crisis from a variety of feminist approaches, shedding new light on the concept of the crisis and on questions of politics, institutions and intersectionality. The case studies included refer to different parts of Europe, from North to South and from East to West, capturing the multifaceted gendered impacts of the crisis. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, international relations, gender studies, economics, law, sociology, social policy, and European studies.

Author : Maria Karamessini,Jill Rubery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135073978

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Women and Austerity by Maria Karamessini,Jill Rubery Pdf

Austerity has become the new principle for public policy in Europe and the US as the financial crisis of 2008 has been converted into a public debt crisis. However, current austerity measures risk losing past progress towards gender equality by undermining important employment and social welfare protections and putting gender equality policy onto the back burner. This volume constitutes the first attempt to identify how the economic crisis and the subsequent austerity policies are affecting women in Europe and the US, tracing the consequences for gender equality in employment and welfare systems in nine case studies from countries facing the most severe adjustment problems. The contributions adopt a common framework to analyse women in recession, which takes into account changes in women’s position and current austerity conditions. The findings demonstrate that in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis, employment gaps between women and men declined — but due only to a deterioration in men’s employment position rather than any improvements for women. Tables are set to be turned by the austerity policies which are already having a more negative impact on demand for female labour and on access to services which support working mothers. Women are nevertheless reinforcing their commitment to paid work, even at this time of increasing demands on their unpaid domestic labour. Future prospects are bleak. Current policy is reinforcing the same failed mechanisms that caused the crisis in the first place and is stalling or even reversing the long term growth in social investment in support for care. This book makes the case for gender equality to be placed at the centre of any progressive plan for a route out of the crisis.

Author : Hannah Bargawi,Giovanni Cozzi,Susan Himmelweit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317239000

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Economics and Austerity in Europe by Hannah Bargawi,Giovanni Cozzi,Susan Himmelweit Pdf

The full impact of austerity policies across Europe is still being assessed, but it is clear that their gendered impacts have been consistently severe, structural and manifold. They have also been, until now, under-researched and under-estimated. This book brings together the research of leading feminist economists in the area of gender and austerity economics to perform a rigorous gender-impact analysis both at national and pan-European levels. The chapters not only offer thorough evidence for the detrimental gender-impact of austerity policies across Europe, but they also provide readers with concrete suggestions of alternative policies that national governments and the European Union should adopt. With a combination of country case studies and cross-country empirical analysis, this book reveals the scope and channels through which women and men have been impacted by austerity policies in Europe, and goes on to offer readers the opportunity to assess the feasibility and implications of a feminist alternative to continued austerity. This book will be invaluable to social science students and researchers, as well to as policy-makers searching not just for a Plan B to continued austerity policies but for a Plan F – a feminist economic strategy to stimulate sustainable economic recovery.

Author : Aida A. Hozic,Jacqui True
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190614096

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Scandalous Economics by Aida A. Hozic,Jacqui True Pdf

Of all of the lies, fragile alliances, and predatory financial dealings that have been revealed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, we have yet to come to terms with the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current economic order. Scandalous Economics is about "silences" - the astonishing neglect of gender and race in explanations of the Global Financial Crisis. But, it is also about "noises" - the sexual scandals and gendered austerity policies that have relegated public debate, and the crisis itself, into political oblivion. While feminist economists and movements such as Occupy Wall Street have pointed to the distributional inequalities that are an effect of financial deregulation, scholars haven't really grappled with the representational inequalities inherent in the way we view the politics of the market. For example, capitalism won't be made more equitable simply by appointing women to leadership positions within financial firms or corporations. And the next crisis will not be averted if our understandings of gendered inequalities are framed by sexual scandals in media and popular culture. We need to look at the activities and the privileges of the advantaged - the "TED women" of the crisis -- as much as the victimization of the disadvantaged - to fully grasp the interplay between gender and economy in this fragile age of restoration. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely this. It argues that normalization of the post-GFC economic order in the face of its obvious breakdown(s) has been facilitated by co-optation of feminist and queer perspectives into national and international responses to the crisis. Scandalous Economics builds upon the Occupy movement and other critical analysis of the GFC to comprehensively examine gendered material, ideational and representational dimensions that have served to make the crisis and its effects, 'the new normal' in Europe and America as well as Latin America and Asia.

Author : Sylvia Walby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509503209

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Crisis by Sylvia Walby Pdf

We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a democratic crisis. Borne unevenly, the effects of the crisis are exacerbating class and gender inequalities. Rival interpretations – a focus on ‘austerity’ and reduction in welfare spending versus a focus on ‘financial crisis’ and democratic regulation of finance – are used to justify radically diverse policies for the distribution of resources and strategies for economic growth, and contested gender relations lie at the heart of these debates. The future consequences of the crisis depend upon whether there is a deepening of democratic institutions, including in the European Union. Sylvia Walby offers an alternative framework within which to theorize crisis, drawing on complexity science and situating this within the wider field of study of risk, disaster and catastrophe. In doing so, she offers a critique and revision of the social science needed to understand the crisis.

Author : Ruth Pearson,Caroline Sweetman
Publisher : Practical Action Pub
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 185339713X

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Gender and the Economic Crisis by Ruth Pearson,Caroline Sweetman Pdf

This book maps the emerging impact of the economic crisis on people in different contexts, and suggest policy and practice changes. Authors include researchers as well as policymakers and development practitioners, who analyse the initial impacts of the economic crisis in South and East Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Author : Rania Antonopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136754999

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Gender Perspectives and Gender Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis by Rania Antonopoulos Pdf

With the full effects of the Great Recession still unfolding, this collection of essays analyses the gendered economic impacts of the crisis. The volume, from an international set of contributors, argues that gender-differentiated economic roles and responsibilities within households and markets can potentially influence the ways in which men and women are affected in times of economic crisis. Looking at the economy through a gender lens, the contributors investigate the antecedents and consequences of the ongoing crisis as well as the recovery policies adopted in selected countries. There are case studies devoted to Latin America, transition economies, China, India, South Africa, Turkey, and the USA. Topics examined include unemployment, the job-creation potential of fiscal expansion, the behavioral response of individuals whose households have experienced loss of income, social protection initiatives, food security and the environment, shedding of jobs in export-led sectors, and lessons learned thus far. From these timely contributions, students, scholars, and policymakers are certain to better understand the theoretical and empirical linkages between gender equality and macroeconomic policy in times of crisis.

Author : Francesca Bettio,Janneke Plantenga,Mark Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136733017

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Gender and the European Labour Market by Francesca Bettio,Janneke Plantenga,Mark Smith Pdf

The book presents state of the art research on women’s current position in European labour markets. It combines analysis of the latest trends in employment, occupational segregation, working time, unpaid work, social provisions (especially care provisions) and the impact of the financial crisis, with overall assessment of the actual impact of the European Employment Strategy and the specific impact of key policies, such as taxation and flexicurity.

Author : Anna Triandafyllidou,Irina Isaakyan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137467119

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High Skill Migration and Recession by Anna Triandafyllidou,Irina Isaakyan Pdf

Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe.

Author : Angela O'Hagan,Elisabeth Klatzer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319648910

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Gender Budgeting in Europe by Angela O'Hagan,Elisabeth Klatzer Pdf

This book takes a broad look at conceptual and practical applications of gender budgeting in Europe. It comprises three linked sections that work through conceptual definitions of gender budget analysis. These sections explore how it can be framed and constructed as a gender equality policy; investigate case studies across Europe; and examine challenges for implementation. The first book of its kind, Gender Budgeting in Europe explores conceptual and methodological variations evidence in practice in Europe and the challenges of adoption and implementation in different political and institutional contexts. It brings together historical and current conceptual developments and tensions; approaches, methodologies, and tools in practice across Europe; activism, actors and agency and the engagement of formal institutions at all levels of government with feminist policy changes and feminist analysis and activists. This text is fascinating reading for students, scholars, policy makers and activists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Schibri-Verlag
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783868631210

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The social dimension of the economic crisis in Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ingrid Bego
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349561606

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Gender Equality Policy in the European Union by Ingrid Bego Pdf

One of the solutions proposed by the European Union to remedy the effects of the 2008 economic crisis is to increase female labour participation. This book explores the policy changes in four new member states that may reduce the gender employment gap and improve women's equal participation in the labour force.

Author : A. Geske Dijkstra,Janneke Plantenga
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415154251

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Gender and Economics by A. Geske Dijkstra,Janneke Plantenga Pdf

Comprises 10 papers. Provides an introduction to gender studies in economics. Covers economic theories, the economic situation of men and women, and policies to improve the relative economic position of women.

Author : Sarah Marie Hall,Helena Pimlott-Wilson,John Horton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429574795

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Austerity Across Europe by Sarah Marie Hall,Helena Pimlott-Wilson,John Horton Pdf

Drawing together multidisciplinary research exploring everyday life in Europe during times of economic crisis, this book explores the ways in which austerity policies are lived and experienced - often alongside other significant social, political and personal change. With attention to the inequalities produced by these processes and the measures used by individuals, families and communities to help them ‘get by’, it also envisages hopeful, affirmative socio-political futures. Arranged around the themes of intergenerational relations and exchanges, ways of coping through crises, and community, civic and state infrastructures, Austerity Across Europe will appeal to social scientists with interests in everyday life, family practices, neoliberal state policy, poverty and socio-economic inequalities.

Author : Anna Elomäki,Johanna Kantola,Paula Koskinen Sandberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030811785

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Social Partners and Gender Equality by Anna Elomäki,Johanna Kantola,Paula Koskinen Sandberg Pdf

This book breaks new ground in gender and politics research by studying the multiple ways in which gender and intersectional equalities shape and are shaped by social partners representing employers and employees in Europe, as well as the relationships between those social partners. Little critical attention has been paid to these organizations, yet, as this volume illustrates, social partners are important actors in relation to gender and other inequalities at the level of both individual European countries and the European Union. The chapters in this volume explore the impact of social partners on (in)equalities in a variety of 21st-century political contexts, taking into account phenomena such as neoliberalisation, austerity, and the COVID-19 crisis. This volume adds a crucial dimension to studies on gender inequalities in the labour market, contributing to research on issues such as domestic work, the gender pay gap, and the persistent undervaluation of women’s labour and feminized reproductive labour, in particular care work. It also represents a significant contribution to the literature on gender equality policy. The book’s focus on social partners provides important insights that help to explain the persistence of gender inequalities and the difficulties of adopting and implementing policies to combat them. This volume should appeal to students and researchers of gender studies, politics, European politics, employment relations, and international relations, as well as to policymakers engaged in addressing gender inequalities in the labour market.